Streckfus Steamboat Line v. United States

FOSTER, Circuit Judge.

On April 7, 1921, a collision occurred in the port of New Orleans between the steamboat Capitol, owned by appellant, and the steam tug Gwa*252lia, owned by the United States, and operated in the Mississippi-Warrior service. The Capitol is a large, stem wheel, river steamboat) approximately 756 feet long and 50 feet beam, and was engaged in carrying excursionists about the harbor of New Orleans in the winter season, and in the same service on the upper Mississippi in the vicinity of St. Louis during the summer. As the result of the collision the paddle wheel of the Capitol…